8. Batman Begins
Warner Bros.Christopher Nolan has become the most celebrated director in all of geekdom in the new millennium. The man is an undeniably talented auteur who is ingenious at interweaving complex existential and metaphysical themes into genre fare. His second film in his reimagining of Batman, The Dark Knight, was a cultural landmark and will be remembered for generations to come. However, despite all these great aspects of Nolan's filmography, the director is also responsible for a few negative trends currently plaguing cinema. First and foremost: the reboot. As fantastic as Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy is, the idea planted into Hollywood execs that a franchise never has to truly end, but can simply be "rebooted", is one of the most dangerous concepts to ever threaten cinema. Sure, there have always been remakes, but remakes only occurred after at least a decade had past. The reboot on the other hand allows the same character to appear and reappear like the seasons, and the time span between reboots seems to get shorter and shorter. Batman Begins also started the trend of superhero films being so, so serious. While it works in Nolan's trilogy, because it's his sincere take on the character and story, the copy cats that have followed suit are a bit tiring. Not everything needs to have so much gravitas, and to crack a smile every once in awhile isn't going kill anybody. To quote Nolan's Joker, "Why so serious?"